ENEB New Master Thread

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I was looking at Reed and found many level 7 and level 8 business and education courses that are RQF accredited (a few by universities) and which provided doible the ECTS credits than ENEB. I'm wondering if those credits, in addition to/submitted along with the ENEB degree(s) and the Isabel Degree would result in more favorable evaluations by NACES members. Is it possible that could result in U.S. regional or national accreditation, especially since it's done on a course by course basis and much of the degree wouldn't even originate with ENEB?  If so, it seems possible to get it done for a lower cost and with less time and probably less composition intensive work than UMPI. I hear the writing at UMPI is overwhelming for many people.

Just a thought.

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Western Governors University has a Masters in Elementary Education for Licensure, which does not require ANY previous courses in education, and they also do NOT require any general education credits. Source - I enrolled with a European Bachelor's (no general ed credits and no Education credits) into their Masters.

WGU also accepts NACES evaluations. Source - I had to use one for them to accept my European Bachelor's.

Additionally, most states that offer "emergency teaching licenses" and emergency substitute teacher licenses offer them to anyone of any Bachelor's degree regardless of what subject your BA was in, and regardless of if it had any Education courses or not. A foreign one just has to be NACES evaluated, so ENEB would pass. Most teachers I talk to got their first jobs on an emergency license and then enrolled in a teacher preparation program (aka WGU or something similar) after already having a job as a teacher in a classroom.

Finally, you can also do i-Teach which again accepts NACES members. It doesn't get you a degree but it does get you a state teaching license and gets you into a paid position during your teacher training (student teaching) so, unlike when doing WGU, you don't have to pay for tuition AND go unemployed for 4 months while doing unpaid student teaching.

It is state dependent.   She would need to check her specific state she wishes to teach.  Many are a lot more flexible than others.  I was speaking from what I know here in Arkansas which tends to require closer to traditional routes.

Louisiana has the traditional route that requires student teaching but also has the option of teaching anything you can pass the content area exam in, if you have a Bachelor's. However, those exams are reputed to be difficult. The Praxis that all teachers must take is also said to be among the most difficult in the nation... and yet our educational attainment here is simply tragic. Our students are failing miserably, which means that our teachers are failing them. Teacher pay is very low and you're better off working as a sub and choosing your own schedule, as long as your insurance and retirement is already sewn up.